Canada

Canada’s sovereignty call-to-arms has largely been expressed through what we buy. Shoppers fiercely scrutinize labels and corporate ownership to determine whether a product is truly “Canadian.” But while we’re paying closer attention to the origin and composition of the products we’re purchasing, we’re not really thinking about how we pay for them. That needs to change.

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The Jian Ghomeshi Loophole

A private company is seeking exclusive rights to part of a treasured coastal park near Victoria, sparking concerns about the B.C. government’s priorities for public wilderness areas.

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Hours after Iran and the U.S. reached a ceasefire deal, Israel launched one of its most devastating attacks on Lebanon to date.

Bebawi was sentenced in 2020 to eight and a half years in prison for his role in the corruption scheme between the engineering firm and Moammar Gadhafi’s Libyan regime. He was released after serving one-sixth of his sentence.

In 2016, Gladu was voted “most collegial” MP in a survey of her colleagues. But in the years since she has made headlines for different reasons.

The B.C. government is recommending a fine against those responsible for the deaths of more than a dozen cattle last fall, but the Ministry of Environment and Parks won’t say who, exactly, investigators believe is to blame for poisoning at least 13 cattle in the province’s Interior.

Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.

In June 2024, an Ontario man who was visiting Montreal parked his car, a Honda Accord, on the street in a central neighbourhood. The next day, it was gone.

As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world’s bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.

New poll shows a majority of Canadians want to ban citizens from serving in the U.S. military.

Retired colonel Pierre LeBlanc … says Canada faces an increasing number of risks to its security from Russia, China and even the U.S., but has failed to invest in strategic defence to deter adversaries.

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A report from Amnesty International on human rights and the World Cup warned last week about the potential for protests if “the U.S. team is drawn to play in Canada in later rounds and ICE personnel are deployed to provide security.”

It’s currently legal for Canadians to join the Israeli military, as the Foreign Enlistment Act only prohibits citizens from fighting for non-state forces, designated terrorist organizations and militaries of states at war with an ally.

Canadian Armed Forces members used their own personal social media accounts, computers and networks at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and gathered information about Canadians, violating intelligence-gathering rules, according to a newly released report.

Pete Pearson had three reasons for trying psilocybin, or “magic mushrooms,” for the first time at age 75.

Electric School Bus Adoption:

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A years-long investigation into a special RCMP unit that polices protests against resource extraction in British Columbia is finished but can’t be finalized because the RCMP’s oversight body has been without a chairperson for more than a year.

Beijing is pushing Ottawa to back its bid to join a major free trade agreement between Indo-Pacific nations, including Canada, Japan and Australia, according to a Canadian senator who just returned from a diplomatic mission to China.

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The Canadian company gets paid in the local country’s currency for the power from the solar farm, so the company has invested in a Chili pepper plantation beside the solar farm, and sells the chili peppers on the international market for a return on their investment in dollars. There is farming, and then there is farming.

New polling suggests a majority of Canadians think Canada ought to explore joining the European Union at a fraught time for geopolitical relations.

Officials of the East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) and members of the Uyghur community staged protests across the United States and Canada, calling for global accountability and urgent international action over what they described as China’s “ongoing genocide” in East Turkistan, also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China.

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The BC Counter Human Trafficking Unit and Richmond RCMP have made multiple arrests that they say will deter predators looking to purchase sex from potential trafficking victims.

The former MP who spent more than a decade pushing to legalize single-event sports betting says he doesn’t regret it — but says its implementation is in some ways “sad” and “deplorable.”

Erick Serpas Ventura knows the bones of a good home.

Members of the Canadian Forces and Canadian Rangers are nearing the end of their epic trek across the North.

A group home worker in Winnipeg says she can’t stop thinking about an 18-year-old homicide victim she helped care for — and what more might have been done to protect her.

Combining ecological and cultural values, and nearly two dozen planning partners, British Columbia’s Great Bear Sea is a model of con­ser­va­tion cooper­a­tion

When O’Leary (of Dragon’s Den fame) first announced the project a year and a half ago alongside municipal and provincial representatives, they described the project as “the world’s largest AI Data Centre Industrial Park.” The project is slated to need about 7.5 GW of power when fully built.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has announced recalls due to possible listeria contamination affecting products including salads, cheese and meal kits.

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On Nov. 11, 2024, Ontario’s policing oversight body, the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, reported that a Hamilton police officer and another man were injured after an “exchange of gunfire.” But this later turned out to be false. There were two police officers, both of whom fired a barrage of reportedly 24 bullets that struck Erixon Kabera several times, killing him, and injuring one of the other officers.

The Middle East war is impacting something most Canadians may not have expected: the cost of some mortgages.

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The Liberal government’s second attempt at giving police and spies easier access to Canadians’ information includes what’s anticipated to be costly demands on a range of private businesses to to change how they manage their data.

The wind cuts across an empty stretch of land on the southern edge of London, Ont., where rows of small, cabin-like units sit far from bus routes, shops and the downtown core.

Here is the open letter by the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project to Canadian PM Mark Carney (pdf)

The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling after finding the judge used an “arbitrary boundary” to determine a First Nation’s Aboriginal title over a swath of Nootka Island off western Vancouver Island.

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Health Canada has slapped new terms and conditions on all of a company’s paid plasma centres after multiple failed inspections where the regulator found “recurring, systemic deficiencies.”